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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

ISIS Vows to Kill Pamela Geller

An anonymous message posted on JustPasteIt (oddly, it's still up as of this posting) singles out the organizer of the Draw Muhammad Cartoon Contest, Pamela Geller as an ISIS target. The message also warns those who "protect her", "house her", "house her events" and "give her a platform to spill her filth."The message also claims that there are "71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire." The named states were Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois and California.On her website Geller wrote:

This threat illustrates the savagery and barbarism of the Islamic State. They want me dead for violating Sharia blasphemy laws. What remains to be seen is whether the free world will finally wake up and stand for the freedom of speech, or instead kowtow to this evil and continue to denounce me. What’s really frightening and astonishing about this threat is that the media in denouncing me is essentially allying with and even cheering on the Islamic State. I expected this from jihadists. I never expected it from my fellow Americans in the mainstream media.

She is absolutely right of course.

While Geller has received a great deal of support, she has also been the target of much nastiness from the usual anti-Islamophobe suspects.

Ms. Geller has understandably increased her security arrangements.

But it won't stop with Pamela Geller. And government and law enforcement agencies will soon have some decisions to make about offering protection to targeted individuals.

Or maybe we're just asking for it.

After all, the future does not belong to those who slander the Prophet.